FT hires WSJ’s Pop for its Brussels bureau

Valentina Pop

Valentina Pop has been hired by the Financial Times to edit its Brussels Briefing newsletter.

She previously has been at The Wall Street Journal, where she wrote about European politics, international courts, migration and other related topics in Brussels. She had been at the Journal since March 2015.

Previously, Pop was a reporter with EUobserver, a Brussels-based online news service, for seven years and a contributor to The Economist.

She has been reporting on the EU since 2005.

Pop holds a bachelor’s degree from Universitatea „Babeș-Bolyai” din Cluj-Napoca in Romania.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.